Banning facial recognition misses the point: The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that ~tech Article 1089 words, published Jan 20 2020 5 votes
Fifty countries ranked by how they’re collecting biometric data and what they’re doing with it ~tech privacy Article 3350 words, published Dec 4 2019 11 votes
Special Services Group is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, including cameras that are hidden inside a tombstone, a baby car seat, and a vacuum cleaner ~tech Article 1366 words, published Jan 9 2020 7 votes
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands ~tech privacy Article 3179 words 35 votes
How NIST tested facial recognition algorithms for racial bias ~tech privacy Article 1216 words 5 votes
How to track President Trump (tracking of government employees using cell phones) ~news usa politics Article 3258 words, published Dec 20 2019 23 votes
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry ~tech privacy Article 4390 words 15 votes
San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits ICE access to criminal justice data ~tech Article 475 words 9 votes
"Project DREAD": White House veterans helped the United Arab Emirates build a secret surveillance unit ~tech Article 5 votes
Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance ~tech privacy Article 13 070 words 9 votes
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group ~tech Article 5665 words, published Apr 14 2019 13 votes
I got access to my secret consumer score. Now you can get yours, too. ~finance Article 1631 words 14 votes
Chinese professor sues wildlife park after it introduces facial recognition entry system ~tech privacy Link 6 votes
Australia's idiotic war on porn returns, this time using facial recognition ~tech internet privacy Article 476 words 16 votes
Outback Steakhouse franchise begins testing system that uses machine learning to analyze footage of restaurant staff ~food restaurants Article 660 words 10 votes
Soccer team Brøndby IF in Denmark is using facial recognition to stop unruly fans ~sports.football Article 1116 words 4 votes
Student tracking, secret scores: How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply ~life education.higher Article 3116 words 15 votes
NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyber conference at the last minute ~tech security.cyber Article 500 words 6 votes
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior ~tech google privacy Article 6549 words 9 votes
The race to create a perfect lie detector – and the dangers of succeeding ~tech Article 4765 words 5 votes
President Trump tweets sensitive surveillance image of Iran ~news iran usa politics Article 705 words 37 votes
Why protests are becoming increasingly faceless ~tech Article 1977 words, published Aug 25 2019 10 votes
Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan ~tech privacy security Article 349 words 26 votes
As authoritarian governments surveil the internet, open source projects decide how to respond ~tech internet privacy Article 808 words 7 votes
Swedish police want to introduce facial recognition technology to fight crime ~tech Article 217 words 3 votes
How US tech giants are helping to build China’s surveillance state ~tech google Article 1935 words, published Jul 11 2019 8 votes
Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks ~tech privacy security Article 6536 words, published Jun 28 2019 4 votes
Middle East dictators buy spy tech from company linked to IBM and Google ~tech google Article 1019 words 8 votes
Gotta catch 'em all: Understanding how IMSI-catchers exploit cell networks ~tech privacy security Article 6536 words, published Jun 28 2019 6 votes
China's border guards are installing malware onto the phones of travellers crossing its border ~tech Article 1358 words 8 votes
In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms ~tech Article 1964 words 12 votes
When Myspace was king, employees abused a tool called ‘overlord’ to spy on users ~tech privacy social media Article 1201 words 8 votes
The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology that can track multiple moving targets at once, is coming to a city near you ~tech Article 4016 words 13 votes
Masks, cash and apps: How Hong Kong’s protesters find ways to outwit the surveillance state ~news hong kong china Article 1494 words 10 votes
Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton confirms plan to create new spying powers still being considered ~news australia politics Article 719 words 9 votes
Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit ~tech Article 3839 words 12 votes
Against advertising: Advertisers thrive on perpetuating a system that is ravaging the planet. We can do without them — and a lot of the junk they’re trying to sell us. ~design advertising Article 1571 words 33 votes
'It's time for us to watch them': App lets you spy on Alexa and the rest of your smart devices ~tech privacy internet Article 258 words, published Apr 25 2019 11 votes
Snapchat employees abused data access to spy on users ~tech privacy social media Article 1309 words 11 votes
San Francisco has banned government and police use of face surveillance technology ~tech privacy Article 304 words 25 votes
ICE is monitoring and targeting immigration activists ~life Article 1203 words, published Apr 30 2019 5 votes